Melting

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Disposed to melt or soften; feeling or showing tenderness; tender; compassionate.
  • Adapted to melt or soften; affecting; moving: as, a melting speech.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.
  • noun. the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.
  • adjective. Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively.
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  • verb. Present participle of melt.
  • adjective. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • adjective. Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
  • noun. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point
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  • noun. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
  • adjective. becoming liquid
    • Word Usage
    "The term melting pot didn't surface because we have remained separated by our nationalities, religions and general backgrounds."
    Equivalent
    unfrozen  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    heating  phase change  phase transition  physical change  state change  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    belting  pelting  smelting  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adoring  affectionate  blackout  bleeding  blocking  
    verb-stem
    melt  
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